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These photos are from the “Washington County CW Soldiers Monument Dedication” at Rockland Cemetery in Belpre. The monument commemorates the 4500 Washington County soldiers who served in the CW and the more than 150 who are buried at Rockland…

Photographs from the grand re-opening of the Soldiers and Sailors Monument, after a two-year, $2 million transformation of the 116-year-old edifice. Most of the renovation was done in the interior of the monument, with new lighting to illuminate…

Contemporary picture of Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina.

Contemporary photograph of Fort Moultrie, which first fired on Sumter in 1861.

Elevated view of the Ohio Statehouse in Columbus, built between 1839 and 1861 in the Greek Revival style, resembling the Parthenon in Greece. During the Civil War's first weeks, the Statehouse housed recruits in its halls and chambers.

Contributor Note:

1) view from the road of the monument marking where John Hunt Morgan was captured

2) the monument

3) close up of the plaque

4) the Salineville battlefield

5) battlefield monument

The Union Square marker dedication took place on June 5, 2010. Photographs of Ohio Historical Marker, park fountain and Methodist Church, and Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument.

Union Square marker text:

Side A :
"Union Square and Its…

A photo of the Bronze Monument to Confederate Soldiers at the Confederate Cemetery on Johnson's Island. Dedicated by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1910.